This Proud and Savage Land

@2@Hywel Mortymer's story begins in 1800 when he is sixteen and a dramatic @16@change in fortune leads him, innocent and inexperienced, to a brutal and@16@dangerous life working in the coal mines. @3@@2@In the mines children can be horribly maimed in devastating gas explosions,@16@or grow deformed with the burden of their labours and babies are born @16@underground. @3@@2@Wales is in turmoil. A tragic divide between rich and poor, the workers powerless,@16@penniless, starving and diseased sparks growing unrest as the newly founded @16@Unions move inexorably towards the Chartist Rebellion. @3@@2@@18@This Proud and Savage Land@19@ is a brilliantly detailed chronicle of early nineteenth-@16@century Wales and a prelude to the bestselling @18@Rape of the Fair Country.@19@@3@

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Cordell, Cordell Alexander
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 11.09.2014
• EAN: 9781473605060
• ISBN: 978-1-4736-0506-0
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Romance / Historical / Victorian